News | Wednesday, 09 December 2009

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232 cases, 24 outbreaks of food poisoning in six months

232 cases of different forms of food poisoning were reported in the first six months of 2009 of which 24 involved “outbreaks” which infected groups of people.
A breakdown of the sources of outbreaks of food poisoning provided by the Health Department shows that the majority of cases (10) occurred in catering establishments like restaurants, takeaways, café. Nine outbreaks of food poisoning occurred in households.
Other sources of infection were a supermarket, a camping establishment, a wedding reception and a street fish vendor. In May an outbreak of food poisoning occurred in a detention centre for immigrants and another case outbreak occurred in an unspecified “institution” in April.

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